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Tweet A Prairie Village police officer on routine patrol Monday morning saved the day when he noticed smoke coming from a Mission Hills home. Officer Josh Fahlgren said he could see and smell the smoke as he drove by the house in the 5800 block of Mission Drive shortly before 8 a.m. today. In less [...]
Tweet Consolidated Fire District No. 2, which provides fire protection services to communities throughout northeast Johnson County, is preparing to close the fire station a 90th Terrace and Roe Avenue in Prairie Village to make way for a modern facility less than a mile away. Fire Chief Phil Hodgdon says the new station, to be [...]
Tweet Firefighters from three departments were called to the Wellington Club Apartments at 4900 Broadmoor in Mission late Friday evening. Flames were visible from the roof of one apartment building and residents of nearby apartments were evacuated. The extent of damage done was significant, though the fire was under control by about 9 p.m.
Tweet Stiff breezes appear to have knocked a tree branch into a power line support beam near 67th Street and Mission Road this afternoon, felling a live wire that sparked a grass fire. A Prairie Village police officer at the scene said the blaze was quickly quelled, though dry grass allowed it to spread across [...]
Tweet Fire Marshall Todd Kerkhoff said the investigation into the explosion that ripped through a Prairie Village home Sunday has narrowed to the natural gas piping and valve running to a fireplace on the exterior of the house. The scene is still cordoned off as investigators wait to have a final test conducted to determine [...]
Tweet A Sunday morning explosion at a Prairie Village home sent one of its inhabitants to be treated for minor injuries. Consolidated Fire District No. 2 Battalion Chief Bob Wilcox said investigators were still looking into what caused the explosion in the 4500 block of 66th Terrace, and said they were likely to release at [...]
Tweet Fire officials suspect that the blaze that sent six fire engines to a home in the 9600 block of El Monte Saturday night started in the chimney flue, though an official cause is not likely to be released until today. Consolidated Fire District No. 2 Battalion Chief Jeff Scott confirmed that the homeowners were [...]
Tweet Dozens of firefighters and police officers were on the scene Saturday night of a several alarm fire in the 9600 block of El Monte in Overland Park, just one block south of 95th Street. The Consolidated Fire District No. 2 battalion chief on the scene said no had been injured in the blaze. He [...]
Tweet “That was work,” the spent fireman said as he trudged through the foyer of Somerset Elementary, Halligan bar in hand. He and two colleagues had just spent the better part of 10 minutes pounding and prying away at a sealed fire door — a door made of heavy steel and set in a steel door [...]
Tweet Yo, Villagers: just a heads up that you may see some police and fire department activity at Somerset Elementary over the next few days. Demolition on the site is set to begin after Jan. 22, so local law enforcement and fire crews are going to be using the abandoned school building for training exercises [...]
Tweet Hey, kids: There’s a reason you have those fire drills every couple months. A small microwave fire at SM East Tuesday morning led administrators to evacuate the building while the fire department checked to make sure the fire was contained and that the air quality was acceptable for students and teachers. SM East associate [...]
Tweet An early morning fire destroyed a home in the neighborhood east of Prairie Village City Hall, ruining a renovation in progress that neighbors had been eagerly awaiting. Vacant for two years, the home at 3418 W 77th Terrace was being remodeled by the family of its last resident in preparation for a sale. Neighbors [...]
Tweet No, the abandoned Tippin’s Restaurant building at Corinth Square wasn’t burning down last night. Building owner LANE4 and Consolidated Fire District No. 2 worked out a deal allowing the firefighters to use the building for a series of training exercises since the building is scheduled to be demolished to make way for the new [...]
Tweet Fire, ambulance and police crews responded to a house fire north of the intersection of 75th Street and El Monte Saturday afternoon, rescuing two cats from the residence. The homeowners were not present when the fire started, and there were no injuries, said Consolidated Fire District No. 2 Chief Gary Lamons. Fire crews determined [...]
Tweet Reader Steve Revare sent in a few more photos of firefighters battling the blaze in the 8700 block of Catalina Monday:
Tweet A fire in the 8700 block of Catalina Street left the roof of a stately Prairie Village home sagging — but a homeowner present inside when the fire started was able to escape to safety. Consolidated Fire District No. 2 Chief Phil Hodgdon said the cause of the fire was still under investigation, but [...]
Tweet Prairie Village Police dispatch lines were practically exploding with calls about illegal fireworks over the Fourth of July weekend. Well. Maybe not exploding, exactly. But Police Chief Wes Jordan said the department has dealt with an increasing number of calls regarding fireworks in recent years — and they’ve become enough of an issue that [...]
Tweet Johnson County firefighters gathered Monday morning to remember two fallen colleagues and dedicate a memorial in their honor. The firefighters of Consolidated Fire District No. 2 were joined at the 63rd Street and Mission Road fire station by city and county officials, as well as family of the men, Don Koebel and Marvin Wilcox. [...]
Tweet Division Chief Gary Lamons of Consolidated Fire District 2 said Thursday the department still had the cause of last week’s house fire on 73rd Street as undetermined, but would be continuing its investigation. Lamons said it would likely be two to three weeks before fire investigators and insurance adjusters could safely access the basement, [...]
Tweet Parents, teachers and students in the Belinder Elementary community are working to provide clothing, food and other essentials to the Crowell family, which lost its home to a severe fire last Thursday. In this week’s school newsletter, the school’s PTA presidents ask members of the school community to help the Crowells through this difficult [...]
Tweet A house fire today on 73rd Street in Prairie Village between Eaton Street and State Line Road required five engines and firefighters from across Johnson County to quell — but no one was injured in the blaze. Division Chief Gary Lamons of Consolidated Fire District 2 called the house a total loss. Crews encountered [...]
Tweet A concert to benefit the Walker family, whose Leawood home was destroyed by fire last weekend, will be held this afternoon in the mulitpurpose room at Mission Valley. The Walkers were out of town visiting their son and brother Jack, a Shawnee Mission East graduate, when their Wenonga Lane home caught on fire early [...]
Tweet A house fire early Sunday morning left an eerie site in Leawood that has nothing to do with Halloween. The home at 10308 Wenonga Ln., which backs up to Brookwood Elementary, was ravaged by a blaze that the fire department responded to at 4:15 a.m. Sunday. The fire department had the situation under control [...]
